(FB 1546050047 Timestamp) COURSE PREREQUISITES? –“When you do get the coursework set up on the website, will there be prerequisites needed for the economics courses? I have a background in economics and mathematics but it’s been a few years since I’ve utilized things like Calculus regularly. Will there be a quantitative aspect to the program or will it be primarily philosophical / literature based?”— A friend via twitter The pre-requisite for Economics is just the application and intro to propertarianism. We are not trying to teach statistical analysis (correlation) only operationalism (causation) – not prediction but explanation. So math will be very limited and mostly what we will do is focus on the economics of human behavior. If you have read becker et al, and have read my posts on operationalism/mises, and the different economic schools it should be easy.
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(FB 1546116124 Timestamp) Reminder for newbs. I teach argument. In keeping with it, I have preserved this feed as a meme-free zone. If you post one, all you are doing is making me spend time deleting. Yes, I tolerate certain illustrated quotes etc. But I just delete that which is not argument. -thanks.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546116124 Timestamp) Reminder for newbs. I teach argument. In keeping with it, I have preserved this feed as a meme-free zone. If you post one, all you are doing is making me spend time deleting. Yes, I tolerate certain illustrated quotes etc. But I just delete that which is not argument. -thanks.
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(FB 1546190720 Timestamp) (Baltimore was one of the capital cities of the continent. So was Detroit. So was Hartford. So was New Haven. What did they fail to do? Technical Universities, Financial Centers, Keep the left out of government, and price ‘minorities’ out of the urban center and into ‘the ring’ as do european countries. NYC survives because of the financial sector or it would be baltimore, hartford, new haven. Why? Look at how few people (families) pay the taxes that pay for NYC? There is a ‘village’ in NYC that pays for it all. Everyone else is just a member of the plantation. And london is worse now. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546190720 Timestamp) (Baltimore was one of the capital cities of the continent. So was Detroit. So was Hartford. So was New Haven. What did they fail to do? Technical Universities, Financial Centers, Keep the left out of government, and price ‘minorities’ out of the urban center and into ‘the ring’ as do european countries. NYC survives because of the financial sector or it would be baltimore, hartford, new haven. Why? Look at how few people (families) pay the taxes that pay for NYC? There is a ‘village’ in NYC that pays for it all. Everyone else is just a member of the plantation. And london is worse now. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546303804 Timestamp) um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-Saxon) or Middle English; The difference between early modern and modern english is (a) pronunciation was pretty gaelic-sounding, and (b) quite a few words in early modern have fallen out of use. Middle English ( 1100-1500) The Lord governeth me, and no thing schal faile to me. In the place of posture there he hath set me. He nurschide me on the water of refreischyng. Early Modern English (King James Bible, 1611) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green postures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Major historical Periods of the English Language 1 – Old English AD 449- AD 1066 2 – Middle English 1066-1509 3 – Early Modern English 1509-1755 4 – Present Day English 1755-present Old English Her for se here of East Englum ofer Humbremuþan to Eoforwicceastre on Norþhymbre, ond þær wæs micel ungeþuærnes þære þeode betweox him selfum, ond hie hæfdun hiera cyning aworpenne Osbryht, ond ungecyndne cyning underfengon Ãllan; ond hie late on geare to þam gecirdon þæt hie wiþ þone here winnende wærun, ond hie þeah micle fierd gegadrodon, ond þone here sohton æt Eoforwicceastre, ond on þa ceastre bræcon, ond hie sume inne wurdon, ond þær was ungemetlic wæl geslægen Norþanhymbra, sume binnan, sume butan; ond þa cyningas begen ofslægene, ond sio laf wiþ þone here friþ nam. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 867) Middle English Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. (Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1400) Early Modern English To be, or not to be, that is the Question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes That Flesh is heyre too? ‘Tis a consummation Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe, To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come, When we haue shuffel’d off this mortall coile, Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600, First Folio)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546303804 Timestamp) um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-Saxon) or Middle English; The difference between early modern and modern english is (a) pronunciation was pretty gaelic-sounding, and (b) quite a few words in early modern have fallen out of use. Middle English ( 1100-1500) The Lord governeth me, and no thing schal faile to me. In the place of posture there he hath set me. He nurschide me on the water of refreischyng. Early Modern English (King James Bible, 1611) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green postures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Major historical Periods of the English Language 1 – Old English AD 449- AD 1066 2 – Middle English 1066-1509 3 – Early Modern English 1509-1755 4 – Present Day English 1755-present Old English Her for se here of East Englum ofer Humbremuþan to Eoforwicceastre on Norþhymbre, ond þær wæs micel ungeþuærnes þære þeode betweox him selfum, ond hie hæfdun hiera cyning aworpenne Osbryht, ond ungecyndne cyning underfengon Ãllan; ond hie late on geare to þam gecirdon þæt hie wiþ þone here winnende wærun, ond hie þeah micle fierd gegadrodon, ond þone here sohton æt Eoforwicceastre, ond on þa ceastre bræcon, ond hie sume inne wurdon, ond þær was ungemetlic wæl geslægen Norþanhymbra, sume binnan, sume butan; ond þa cyningas begen ofslægene, ond sio laf wiþ þone here friþ nam. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 867) Middle English Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. (Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1400) Early Modern English To be, or not to be, that is the Question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes That Flesh is heyre too? ‘Tis a consummation Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe, To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come, When we haue shuffel’d off this mortall coile, Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600, First Folio)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546475501 Timestamp) —“Curt, How are the courses going to work?”— Well, lets get across the principle reason we need the university format. (a) To provide you and others confidence in your investment of time and effort. (b) To provide social, physical (fitness, fighting, war) and strategy (how to conduct war), the natural law and government under the natural law – the most ‘complete’ western aristocratic education that you can recieve. (c) Our methodology requires a rather great deal of general knowledge that you have been denied in order to suppress the continuation of western civilization. (d) To provide consistent training so that you all ‘sound the same’, and therefor preserve the brand value (persuasive value) of the methodology. (e) To provide the full set of courses necessary for a judicial priesthood in the natural law, to transform our civilization just as thoroughly as did the M-P-F’s. (f) To weaken any possible criticism. In other words, this is going to be, as is in all my work, serious. The courses will work just like college/university: 1 – Lecture (video), 2 – Assignment (usually short essay questions), and; 3 – Online discussions (in other words, a lot of help is available, because that’s part of ‘our thing’ is teaching one another.) You will be able to just engage in online conversation, to join social events and activities, to take individual courses, or to take a certification in a series of courses, or to get a degree. These courses will be (I promise) as good or better than those you would receive in the top ten universities. If you want to study law, it’s yale and harvard, if you want tech and science it’s MIT and Stanford. But if you survey the courses at these universities and compare them to ours, you will find that we are teaching far more substantial content than those others do, even at that level of university. Part of the Accreditation process[1] requires those who teach warranty the students achievement. So this requires high investment of my time. So the first generation or two will get access to me. Afterward I do not know since I expect to do a lot of work generating the course material. I assume (hope) others will move in to teach the course. I know others who could do so already. The workload will be the same as university, which is two hours of work to every one hour of course time. This is extremely hard for me to judge and we will have to tailor it going forward. Mostly I see short readings with some writing. Some classes are 6 credits (two semesters of work) and some are 3 (one semester’s worth of work), and I have added some 1 credit courses as well. We are not bound by time constraints as much as universities so I will accelerate or slow the courses on demand So, this is not one of those multiple choice things (gut courses). We want our education to be meaningful androck solid and doing it online this way produces extraordinarily good data for the accreditation process. I think grades are going to be ‘incomplete’, ‘complete’, ‘distinction’, ‘honors’. I am trying to figure out how to prevent people from overreaching their abilities, so that we don’t have a high drop out rate, or make people unhappy and critical. And so we are going to have an ‘application’ process that does some limited filtering for some of the classes, while say, the combat and weapons classes we just want to know if you’re mentally stable. lol. Oh, and until we have accreditation (which takes years) we will charge the minimum possible for each course that we can. -Curt
[1] regarding accreditation: In the USA anyone can start a college or university, offer training, credits, and certification. It is up to the market to determine whether those certifications have any value. The purpose of Accreditation for the student is to understand the value of those certifications, credits, and degrees in the market. The purpose of Accreditation for the organization, is the access to student loans it provides. Access to student loans will allow us to scale quickly.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546475501 Timestamp) —“Curt, How are the courses going to work?”— Well, lets get across the principle reason we need the university format. (a) To provide you and others confidence in your investment of time and effort. (b) To provide social, physical (fitness, fighting, war) and strategy (how to conduct war), the natural law and government under the natural law – the most ‘complete’ western aristocratic education that you can recieve. (c) Our methodology requires a rather great deal of general knowledge that you have been denied in order to suppress the continuation of western civilization. (d) To provide consistent training so that you all ‘sound the same’, and therefor preserve the brand value (persuasive value) of the methodology. (e) To provide the full set of courses necessary for a judicial priesthood in the natural law, to transform our civilization just as thoroughly as did the M-P-F’s. (f) To weaken any possible criticism. In other words, this is going to be, as is in all my work, serious. The courses will work just like college/university: 1 – Lecture (video), 2 – Assignment (usually short essay questions), and; 3 – Online discussions (in other words, a lot of help is available, because that’s part of ‘our thing’ is teaching one another.) You will be able to just engage in online conversation, to join social events and activities, to take individual courses, or to take a certification in a series of courses, or to get a degree. These courses will be (I promise) as good or better than those you would receive in the top ten universities. If you want to study law, it’s yale and harvard, if you want tech and science it’s MIT and Stanford. But if you survey the courses at these universities and compare them to ours, you will find that we are teaching far more substantial content than those others do, even at that level of university. Part of the Accreditation process[1] requires those who teach warranty the students achievement. So this requires high investment of my time. So the first generation or two will get access to me. Afterward I do not know since I expect to do a lot of work generating the course material. I assume (hope) others will move in to teach the course. I know others who could do so already. The workload will be the same as university, which is two hours of work to every one hour of course time. This is extremely hard for me to judge and we will have to tailor it going forward. Mostly I see short readings with some writing. Some classes are 6 credits (two semesters of work) and some are 3 (one semester’s worth of work), and I have added some 1 credit courses as well. We are not bound by time constraints as much as universities so I will accelerate or slow the courses on demand So, this is not one of those multiple choice things (gut courses). We want our education to be meaningful androck solid and doing it online this way produces extraordinarily good data for the accreditation process. I think grades are going to be ‘incomplete’, ‘complete’, ‘distinction’, ‘honors’. I am trying to figure out how to prevent people from overreaching their abilities, so that we don’t have a high drop out rate, or make people unhappy and critical. And so we are going to have an ‘application’ process that does some limited filtering for some of the classes, while say, the combat and weapons classes we just want to know if you’re mentally stable. lol. Oh, and until we have accreditation (which takes years) we will charge the minimum possible for each course that we can. -Curt
[1] regarding accreditation: In the USA anyone can start a college or university, offer training, credits, and certification. It is up to the market to determine whether those certifications have any value. The purpose of Accreditation for the student is to understand the value of those certifications, credits, and degrees in the market. The purpose of Accreditation for the organization, is the access to student loans it provides. Access to student loans will allow us to scale quickly.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546872832 Timestamp) —“Meta question: what’s the best way to ask off-topic questions to you or other experts?”— Matt Evans Just like this, by (a) posting the question in the feed, or (b) posting the question in any comment with ‘off topic’ in the heading. Or via PM. Up to you. —“Actual question: What do you expect the status of Christians to be in a propertarian society? That is, specifically, Christians who are firmly convinced of the supernatural aspects of Christianity; the literal resurrection, the actual divinity of Christ. Not cultural Christians or be nice to people Christians, but folks who believe in a literal Noah’s Ark [for example].”— Christianity is compatible with natural law. (I consider myself a christian and a heathen, and an aryan.) Christian dogma argued in abrahamic verse violates that law if we claim it is true rather than allegorical). My practical solution and opinion opinion is that we are seeing the last generations of dogmatists, and that the vast body of ethically and culturally christian peoples would prefer a reformed church and a restoration of the separation of powers between the church (family and community: norms) and the state ( commerce, dispute, and warfare: laws ). That said, because christianity is compatible with most of western civ, and because christianity is compatible with natural law in practice, then this is not a matter for the law for the simple reason that we cannot change it except by prohibition and by prohibition cause war within our peoples. —“E.g. “they all see how foolish they are and repent of supernaturalism”, or “they are slaughtered to make way for higher IQ people”, or “they are allowed to live peacefully among us so long as they abide by non-parasitism”.—- I think I see it as simply speaking in archaic semitic language vs modern european language. And that the underlying behavior is better brought about by self authoring than superstition. But the underlying behavior is fine. —-“Assuming something like the latter [survival and some degree of tolerated inclusion], raises interesting policy points like “they may not serve as judges” or “they may not testify in courts”, or perhaps more nuanced, “they may testify about things which are falsifiable, but any proclamation of supernatural acts in public our in courts would be disallowed”— Well, this is already in the law. Yes. —“I did a quick search on the website and didn’t really find this covered ; I apologize for missing it if it’s been covered already.”— Religion is the hard part of social science and I have spent about four years on it, with this last year and a half quite a bit of focus and this winter even more. I think I have solved it. That said, faith provides mindfulness, if at high social and political cost, where self authoring provides mindfulness at high personal and economic cost. And we cannot morally deprive people of mindfulness without providing the alternative, and it is extremely difficult to train late life people in self authoring compared to faith. —“Related question: America tolerates and even advantages, for instance, Amish communities today: they are exempted from certain taxes and military services. It is probably correct to argue that Amish communities are parasitic, in the sense that they benefit from the military security of the nation that encompasses them, without contributing able bodied men and certain types of tax revenues.”— There is nothing parasitic about amish communities, they preserve our ancient tradition of voluntary corporation and their persistence is of extremely high value for that purpose. So think of it the other way, that they are providing us with a service – demonstrated not claimed – of what made the west high trust during our early and middle ages. —“What’s the outcome of Amish or Quaker communities under a propertarian paradigm?”— They are a living monument to our past, and we would be fools to interfere with it.